Saturday, July 26, 2008

Something to consider

Something to consider from a time before we became a nation that oscillates between fascism and socialism; a nation that allows government to trample on more and more of our property:.

Until about 1910, excepting only the period of the Civil War, the cost of the federal government was met almost entirely by customs duties and the tobacco and liquor taxes; and until about 1910 the cost of state and local government was met by the property tax, supplemented somewhat by corporation taxes, license fees and death duties.